Delphi – Setting EXE icon in Delphi 7

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I'm trying to customize the icon that shows in Windows Explorer and in Desktop shortcuts for my Delphi application.

In the Delphi 7 IDE, I have loaded the desired icon in the Application tab of the Project Options dialog. It shows my desired icon as a graphic.

I didn't think it was necessary, but I also set my icon as the TMainForm Icon property.

However, the resulting EXE still shows the default D7 icon. What am I missing?

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I found it after more hunting. I created a new project by copying an existing project from another folder. I forgot to change the program name at the top of the DPR file to match the name of the new project. Somehow, if a wrong name is used there, it prevents the icon from being changed in the generated EXE file...

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Delphi – How to avoid UAC when the EXE file name contains the word “update”

This behavior is caused because the applications build with Delphi 7 by default does not have a manifest, or have one with no requestedExecutionLevel attribute. Because of that Windows thinks that you need administrator access when your application name contains words like Setup or Update. this process is called Installer Detection Technology and was introduced alongside UAC with Windows Vista.

From the MSDN site:

Installer Detection only applies to:

32 bit executables

Applications without a requestedExecutionLevel

Interactive processes running as a Standard User with LUA enabled

Before a 32 bit process is created, the following attributes are checked to determine whether it is an installer:

Filename includes keywords like "install," "setup," "update," etc.

Keywords in the following Versioning Resource fields: Vendor, Company Name, Product Name, File Description, Original Filename, Internal Name, and Export Name.

Keywords in the side-by-side manifest embedded in the executable.

Keywords in specific StringTable entries linked in the executable.

Key attributes in the RC data linked in the executable.

Targeted sequences of bytes within the executable.

Moreover Delphi 2007 by default include a manifest in your applications with the requestedExecutionLevel key.

This is a sample manifiest created by delphi 2007. You can see that this manifest has the requestedExecutionLevel attribute in the content.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<assembly xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1" manifestVersion="1.0">
  <assemblyIdentity
    type="win32"
    name="CodeGear RAD Studio"
    version="11.0.2902.10471" 
    processorArchitecture="*"/>
  <dependency>
    <dependentAssembly>
      <assemblyIdentity
        type="win32"
        name="Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls"
        version="6.0.0.0"
        publicKeyToken="6595b64144ccf1df"
        language="*"
        processorArchitecture="*"/>
    </dependentAssembly>
  </dependency>
  <trustInfo xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v3">
    <security>
      <requestedPrivileges>
        <requestedExecutionLevel
          level="asInvoker"
          uiAccess="false"/>
        </requestedPrivileges>
    </security>
  </trustInfo>
</assembly>

Html – How to add a browser tab icon (favicon) for a website

There are actually two ways to add a favicon to a website.

`<link rel="icon">`

Simply add the following code to the <head> element:

<link rel="icon" href="http://example.com/favicon.png">

PNG favicons are supported by most browsers, except IE <= 10. For backwards compatibility, you can use ICO favicons.

Note that you don't have to precede icon in rel attribute with shortcut anymore. From MDN Link types:

The shortcut link type is often seen before icon, but this link type is non-conforming, ignored and web authors must not use it anymore.

`favicon.ico` in the root directory

From another SO answer (by @mercator):

All modern browsers (tested with Chrome 4, Firefox 3.5, IE8, Opera 10 and Safari 4) will always request a favicon.ico unless you've specified a shortcut icon via <link>.

So all you have to do is to make the /favicon.ico request to your website return your favicon. This option unfortunately doesn't allow you to use a PNG icon.

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Html – How to add a browser tab icon (favicon) for a website

<link rel="icon">

favicon.ico in the root directory

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`<link rel="icon">`

`favicon.ico` in the root directory